The Police in Kaduna state has confirmed the death of five persons in the gas explosion at Sabon Tasha in Kaduna metropolis on Saturday afternoon. Among the casualties was a university professor who came to have a haircut at a barbing saloon near the gas plant. The don was caught in the inferno while eyewitnesses […]
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Workers in Kaduna State, have confirmed that they had started receiving the N30,000 minimum wage. Reports had it that the state council on August came to agree that they will start paying the N30,000 minimum wage. Some of the workers started receiving salary alerts for the month of September and they’ve started jubilating. Governor Nasir […]
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The Kaduna state command of the Nigeria Police Force says it has rescued three students of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, abducted along Abuja-Kaduna highway on Monday. The command’s public relations officer, Yakubu Sabo, announced this in a statement issued on Wednesday. He said three other persons were still being held by the kidnappers. “The Command wishes […]
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Two Nigerian Air Force personnel have lost their lives and several others injured in an ambush by suspected armed bandits in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The victims were said to be in two patrol vans before they bumped into the bandits. According to an eyewitness, the assailants were in the process […]
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Gov. Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has dismissed the assertion by the Nigerian Senate that the Abuja-Kaduna highway is the most dangerous road in the country, saying that the road is now safe for travellers. El-Rufa’i stated this when he addressed State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the […]
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A police station in Kakangi village, Birnin Gwari local government area of Kaduna state, has been burnt by bandits, resulting in the death of two policemen. Newsmen gathered that the bandits arrived the community on motorbikes around 5:00am and began shooting sporadically. A resident of the community, who did not want to be named said […]
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Suspected herdsmen have killed 10 persons in Nandu -Gbok village, Sanga local government area of Kaduna state on Saturday. The gunmen also set at least 30 houses on fire. A source told newsmen that men armed with guns, machetes and sticks laid siege on the community around 4am. “We were woken up by heavy gunshots, […]
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Ahmed Abdulrahaman, Kaduna state police commissioner, has failed to confirm the casualty figure Nasir el-Rufai, the governor, released on the killings in Kajuru, Kaduna state. El-Rufai had initially said 66 people were killed in the attacks which took place last week. Trouble started on Sunday night when gunmen invaded Angwan Barde, an Adara community, and […]
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Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, says his government will not allow “bigoted busy bodies” to trivalise the killings in the state. Speaking through Samuel Aruwan, his media aide, el-Rufai said only irresponsible and insensitive people can “recklessly” dismiss the deaths of members of a community with whom they have no contact. The governor said […]
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In the wake of fresh tension in Kaduna town, the Kaduna state government has imposed a 24-hour curfew on the city and environs. Samuel Aruwan, spokesman of Nasir el-Rufai, governor of the state, announced this in a statement. “This is a notice of a 24-hour curfew imposed on Kaduna town and environs, with immediate effect. […]
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